In that moment Creggan came near to spiritual death.

But Freudian slips aside, he said that his was not a case of spiritual death by politics.

But to a Viking, dying while fighting an enemy was a spiritual and glorious death.

And yet there are indications that reports of the Continent's spiritual death have been exaggerated.

The concept of spiritual death has varying meanings in various uses and contexts.

Thus first meaning for "spiritual death" is "to become atheist".

For theist there is no such thing as "spiritual death".

To make a choice like that would be a kind of spiritual death.

That is a spiritual death, a kind of unending moral indigestion.

A country that spends more on defense than on social programs "is approaching spiritual death," he said.